Close save

So I was frantically writing my history paper and Word decided to freeze (because that's what Microsoft products do). I wanted to save what I'd written and it was still vi sable on the screen. So I used OSX's screen capture utility (called Grab) to take a screen shot of the frozen Word page, getting almost everything I'd written since the last save. Then I drug the image to my iBook screen (to the right of the external monitor which is my primary workspace when I'm at home--I love screen spanning) and relaunched Word so I could re-type what I'd written. Some time lost, but much less than if I'd had to come up with it again. Somehow even with the freeze I wrote close to five pages in a little under three hours this morning. Amazing what pressure will do for productivity.

So the moral of the story is: screen shots can make freezes less painful (PCs can take screenshots too).